[Structure, treatment and success of treatment in invasive carcinomas of the uterine cervix].

At the University Hospital Gynecological Department in Zagreb 1666 cancers of the uterine cervix were treated in the period of 4 years [1969--1972]. Among them were only 309 carcinomas in situ, the remaining 1357 were invasive. The distribution by stages was as follows: IA--75, IB--223, II--326, III--611, IV--122. Such unfavourable groups of cervical cancers proceed from the fact that cancer in situ and the early cancer stage I are often treated in other institutions; only the patients with advanced cancer, a poor general condition and those with various accompanying diseases are concentrated in the above quoted institution where there are technical possibilities and a team of surgeons and radiotherapists well educated in the treatment of cervical cancer. The authors present a five-year survival achieved by surgical, radiological, as well as by a combined method of treatment. The total cure rate for stage I was 87.6%, for stage II 64,4%, for stage III 34.4% and for stage IV 6.6%.